Regardless of one’s political affiliation, we are at a crossroads on healthcare. In the U.S., we spend $2.4 trillion each year yet we have 46 million uninsured people. This is why President Obama and Congress have been working together to find the right solution.
CTIA, along with medical and health policy experts, believe that part of the solution is something that more than 270 million Americans use daily – their mobile wireless services.
On Wednesday, June 24th from 8:30-11:30 a.m. (EDT) at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., CTIA is hosting a Technology and Policy Forum on mHealth Solutions for America’s Chronic Care Crisis.
Making healthcare more personal and individualized is expected to reduce medical errors, improve preventive healthcare and significantly improve the medical community’s ability to resolve epidemics. Mobile wireless solutions are a part of the consumer-focused healthcare movement and the wave of the future.
We’ve gathered together an impressive line-up of medical and policy experts for the event including, U.S. Representatives Adam Smith (D-WA-9) and Jim Cooper (D-TN-5), Chief Medical Officer of the West Wireless Health Institute and Chief Academic Officer for Scripps Health Dr. Eric Topol, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Dr. Dan Fletcher, and Vice President of Global Health for the UN Foundation Dr. Dan Carucci.
Eric J. Topol, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, West Wireless Health Institute; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health
Panel I: Innovating Through Healthcare Reform: The Mobile Solution
Panel II: Policy Solutions – Keeping Pace with Technology Innovation
For information on how to RSVP or to view a copy of the full agenda and list of speakers, please click here. We hope you will be able to join us! Otherwise, make sure to visit our blog after the event when we’ll provide a recap and some videos.
To get an idea of what’s to come at next week’s mHealth Solutions and Policy Forum, watch this one-on-one interview with Dr. Topol. I had a chance to sit-down with Dr. Topol to talk about mHealth earlier this spring when he was a keynote speaker at the International CTIA WIRELESS 2009® tradeshow in Las Vegas.
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In addition, here are some clips of Dr. Topol’s informative keynote address.
Finally, here’s a video segment that highlights the public and private sectors joining together to use wireless for a promotional campaign on HIV/AIDS testing for young people.
Wireless never solved anything by itself necessarily but it is a better choice for getting data vs. hoping that a human being will do something manually at some point later on. It's true that we are at a tipping point yet in the field of health care that glass is a little slower to tip - these randomized controlled trials take a long time to conduct - about 4 years for one of our current trials. I blog about my personal experiences since 2001 in the field of mobile and wireless diabetes technology and programs at http://challengediabetes.com - a clinical blog hosted by my company, Diabetech.
Thanks for your comment Kevin. While wireless alone cannot solve the complicated healthcare dilemma in America, wireless is an important piece of the solution. This is the point of the Forum. We're pleased that there is going to be such a diverse and distinguished group of medical and policy experts who agree and are going to talk about how wireless can be a part of the healthcare solution.
Naturally, there are some mHealth solutions that are still in trial phase, but according to Dr. Topol and other experts in the medical community, numerous mHealth solutions have gone through the patent process and clinical trial phase and are already in use today. Because mobile wireless services are part of daily life for more than 270 million Americans (and 4.1 billion individuals worldwide), there is an incredible opportunity to improve the healthcare industry across the board regardless of geographic location, race, age, gender or disability.
Personally, I am looking forward to attending the Forum and I hope you will be able to join us.
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Wireless never solved anything by itself necessarily but it is a better choice for getting data vs. hoping that a human being will do something manually at some point later on. It's true that we are at a tipping point yet in the field of health care that glass is a little slower to tip - these randomized controlled trials take a long time to conduct - about 4 years for one of our current trials. I blog about my personal experiences since 2001 in the field of mobile and wireless diabetes technology and programs at http://challengediabetes.com - a clinical blog hosted by my company, Diabetech.
Naturally, there are some mHealth solutions that are still in trial phase, but according to Dr. Topol and other experts in the medical community, numerous mHealth solutions have gone through the patent process and clinical trial phase and are already in use today. Because mobile wireless services are part of daily life for more than 270 million Americans (and 4.1 billion individuals worldwide), there is an incredible opportunity to improve the healthcare industry across the board regardless of geographic location, race, age, gender or disability.
Personally, I am looking forward to attending the Forum and I hope you will be able to join us.